Bill-file.



PATENTED APR. 24, 1906.

P, T. LEMASTER.

BILL FILE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 1, 1905.

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BILL-FILE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 24, 1906.

Application filed A ril r1905. Serial No. 263,286.

To all wiumt it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PLEASANT T. LEMAs- TER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Spartanburg, in the county of Spartanburg and Stateof South Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBill-Files, of which the following is a specilication.

This invention has relation to bill-files; and it consists in the novelconstruction and arrangement of its parts, as hereinafter shown anddescribed.

The object of the invention is to provide a file for holding bills,papers, 620., which is-simple and cheap in construction and the parts ofwhich are so arranged that any particular bill or paper upon the filemay be easily and readily removed without disturbing the order ofarrangement of the other bills or papers.

The invention consists primarily of a piece of steel-spring wireprovided with a means whereby it may be attached to a wall or otherstationary object. The ends of the said wire are pointed and extendgenerally toward each other. Immediately behind the point of each end ofthe wire is located a groove and an eye, the groove and eye of one endbeing adapted to receive the groove and eye of the opposite end when thetwo ends of the wire are locked together. Also either eye may be usedfor holding a piece of cord or twine upon which the bills or papers maybe passed from the file.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of thebill-file. Fig. 2 represents a group showing the upper and lower ends ofthe wire, and in said group, a is a front elevation of the lower pointof the wire, I) is a longitudinal sectional view of the lower point ofthe wire, 0 is a longitudinal sectional view of the upper point of thewire, and d is a rear elevation of the upper point of the wire. .Fig. 3is a front elevation illustrating one means for attaching the bill-fileto the wall, and Fig. 4 is a front elevation illustrating a modifiedmeans for attaching the billdile to the wall.

The bill-file consists of a spring-wire 1. Said wire is preferably madeof steel. The upper portion 2 of the said wire 1 is curved substantiallyin the form of the are of a circle and is provided at its lower end withan in wardly-inclined point 3. Immediately above said point 3 is locatedan eye 4, and above the 1 said eye 4 and leading into the same and 10- lcated upon the inner face of the wire is a groove 5. The lower portion 6of the bill-file 1 is bent toward the front and merges into the portion7, which is so positioned under tension from the curved portion 6 as tonormally incline away from the upper portion 2 of the wire 1, asindicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1. The upper end of the portion 7is provided with outwardlyinclined pointed end 8, and immediately belowthe said pointed end S is located an eye 9, and immediately below thesaid eye and extending down in the outer side of the portion 7 is agroove 10.

In the form of the invention as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3 the wire 1is split longitudinally at the point 11 and may receive the head of anail attached to a wall, (not shown,) whereby the bill-file is supportedupon the wall. In the form of the invention as illustrated in Fig. 4 thewire 1 is not split, but is twisted into a loose knot 12, which isadapted to receive the nail in the manner as above described for thesplit portion 11.

WVhen the ends of the portions 2 and 7 are interlocked, the point 3 ofthe portion 2 enters the eye 9 of the portion 7 and the point 8 of theportion 7 enters the eye 4 of the portion 2. In the operation ofinterlocking the grooves 5 and 10 serve as guides for directing thepoints 3 and 8 into the eyes 9 and 4, respectively. It will thus be seenthat when the ends of the portions 2 and 7 are interlocked the points 3and 8 are concealed, and the bills may be passed from the portion 6along the portion 7 and upon the portion 2 without interference on thepart of the said points, and that thus the said bills may be supported,and any particular bill may be removed by disengaging the ends of theportions 2 and 7 without disturbing the relative arrangement of theremaining bills. Furthermore, a string or twine 13 (indicated by dottedlines in Fig. 1) may be inserted through either the eye 9 or the eye 4,and the bills or papers may be passed from over the portion 2 or portion7 upon the said string in the same order in which they were filed. Thusthe file may be cleared of bills and papers when desired.

It will be observed that the ends of the portion 7 and the portion 2 arealike in construction, but that the parts thereof are oppositelydisposed and that they engage and interlock with each other in a similarmanner.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters of oppositely disposed, said ends being point= Patent, is ed,each end having an eye located adjacent 1. A bill-file consisting of awire having said point and grooves leading toward said ends of likeconstruction with the parts thereeyes.

5 of oppositely disposed, said ends being point- In testimony whereof IafliX my signature I 5- ed, eyes located adjacent each said point, thein presence of two witnesses. eye of one end adapted to receive thepoint of PLEASANT T LEMASTER. the other end and vice versa. Witnesses:

2. A bill-file consisting of a wire having M. O. GENTRY;

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